Michael,
any chance they got any jobs in Barcelona?
-Senor Tostada
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Mike Flynn wrote:
> Yeah wanted to see if the standard NIC's could be configured for fail
> over and for increased throughput. The whole ISP is Solaris! 5 different
> countries with around 40 servers in each.........
>
> I'm a networking guy so they don't like me setting up their solaris
> boxes..........So mirroring notes not much use to me! cheers for the nfo
> though.
>
> Gossip: We just had an E10k stolen..................The insurers are
> going wild.................
>
> At least Foundry have a sense of humour... not only is their CLI almost
> totally Cisco compliant you get things like this too........
> Cisco HSRP
> Foundry FSRP
> Cisco are gonna buy them up..............
>
> Nice
>
> L8r
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sach Jobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 July 2001 03:00
> To: Mike Flynn
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Solaris ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>
> Yes, i LOVE Foundry.
>
> I have been working with their switches for some four years now and they
> are by far the best switches in terms of supporting a variety of
> protocols
> ->AND<- having great throughput. Just thinking about them makes me
> happy.
> It's interesting to see that they are branching out a bit from just
> switches. Let me know how the ServerIron works out.
>
> Is your entire ISP Solaris based? Interesting. So this card is just to
> provide NIC failover? Or increased bandwidth? Or both?
>
> On a similiar topic i was just setting up disk mirroring (RAID 1) on a
> 250
> and a 450 for one of our clients using Solaris's built in DiskSuite and
> i'm REALLY impressed. It's very simple and elegant. If you are
> interested
> i'll mail out my notes when i'm done.
>
> Cheers,
> sach
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Mike Flynn wrote:
>
> > The solaris boxes are doing everything an ISP needs. Web, DNS , POP,
> > SMTP etc...........
> >
> > Thorsten pointed me to a good network card
> > http://www.znyx.com/drivers/os/solaris.htm that does the job. Just
> > thought you would be able to do it neatly with the built in
> > cards..............
> >
> > We are going to use Foundry ServerIron's which seem way better than
> the
> > Cisco director..................
> >
> > Thx f da help.............
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sach Jobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 13 July 2001 15:23
> > To: Thorsten Sideb0ard
> > Cc: Mike Flynn; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Solaris ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
> >
> > I guess i depends on what the servers are being used for but, don't
> use
> > usually use some sort of front-ending sort of box (ala cisco
> > localdirector) to handle this sort of thing.
> >
> > What are the solaris boxes doing?
> >
> > sach
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thorsten Sideb0ard wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Sitting in a little Internet cafe i Barcelona at the moment,
> > > so i can't do too much research.
> > >
> > > Mostly when i've read up on load balancing on the servers,
> > > all the solutions have been slightly dodgy.
> > >
> > > i think you have three options,
> > > a simple script that checks the state of each interface and changes
> > route
> > > just using ifconfig would be your lo-fi method, probably not what
> your
> > > looking for.
> > >
> > > A routing protocol, probably gated. Don't know too much about using
> > this,
> > > but from what i've read i think it could do the job.
> > >
> > > and i believe there are various hardware solutions.
> > > One that looks good is
> > > http://www.znyx.com/drivers/os/solaris.htm
> > > provides "
> > > link aggregation (for greater overall network throughput)
> > > fast failover (automatic link failure detection/correction)
> > > automatic load balancing (improve network efficiency) "
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this for web servers at all?
> > > There are a few things aimed specifically at load balancing web
> sites.
> > > Oh, my time is running out, gotta dash.
> > >
> > > Mail me off list with your current phone number and i'll give ya a
> > call as
> > > well, tell you the story behind the barcelona trip!
> > >
> > > later,
> > > thor
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Mike Flynn wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thor
> > > >
> > > > How ya doing man? Long time no hear. Got a new job at ISP running
> > > > network..... The server guys
> > > > Need some help buddie.... we got some solaris issue with
> connecting
> > > > solaris 2.6,2.7, or 2.8 to 2 different catalysts.
> > > >
> > > > We want redundancy and would like both links to the different
> cat's
> > live
> > > > at the same time and to provide fail over in the event of either
> cat
> > > > loss or link loss. The Sun's just seem to use one link by default
> > and
> > > > won't use secondary in the event of failure......
> > > >
> > > > Have changed the local_mac_address in the EEPROM to get unique
> MAC's
> > on
> > > > different interfaces.........
> > > >
> > > > Anyone done this?????????????????????????????????????????
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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